Automate Ads YC Application

Winter 2015Inactive

Automate Ads went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2015
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Charles Szymanski

What Automate Ads does

On a mission to automate, optimize, and unify your digital advertising campaigns with incredible software.

Automate Ads's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Automate Ads, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Automate Ads

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate, optimize, and unify digital ads

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built software that programmatically automates and optimizes digital advertising campaigns across platforms. Our tool unifies campaign management under one interface, making it easier for marketers to run effective ads without manual juggling.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Mateo, CA, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Mateo has the talent and proximity to key customers and partners in digital marketing, so it's the natural base for Automate Ads.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Automate Ads YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Automate Ads's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Automate Ads would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.